[RVF and Triumphi – with index]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Banco Rari 227
Creator
Date
fifteenth century (1475-1500)
Mode of exegesis
Copyist
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

216x141 mm; I + 188 + I fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

parchment; humanistic script; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; two architectural frames; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> A PIE DE COLLI

Internal Description

fols. 1r-7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
fol. 8r-8v: blank;
 
fols. 9r-149r: RVF (‘FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE CLARISSIMI SONECTORVM ET CANTILENAR[VM] LIBER INCIPIT’);
 
fols. 149v-150v: blank;
 
fols. 151r-187r: Triumphi (order: Amoris I, Amoris III, Amoris II, Amoris IV, Pudicitie, Mortis Ia, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fols. 187v-188v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Banco Rari 227
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Fol. 71r-71v: RVF 136-138 are erased by pen.
 
Fol. 9r has a rich architectural frame with floral decorations containing putti, medallions, and a coat of arms of the Spinelli family at the bottom of the fol. The central medallion in the upper margin contains a portrait of Petrarch. Fol. 151r has an architectural frame with floral decorations.
 
The copyist has been identified as Giovan Francesco Marzi da San Gimignano by De la Mare (1985, I, 502).
 
Initials in gold for each RVF poem and capitolo of the Triumphi.

Online References
Bibliography

CPR, 82-84; Mazzatinti, XIII, 56
 
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D’Ancona 1914, II, 674-75; De la Mare 1985, I, 502; Frati 1917, 460; Garzelli 1995, II, 572; Pregio e bellezza 2010, 152-53.

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